10 Quotes by Stan Grant

When everyone is poor you don't know you're poor. My father worked so some of the boys thought I was actually rich.

Storytellers work with and against history. In history we find difference and conflict, yet the storyteller must find us in each other.

All community is in some way imagined

Sometimes defiance is all we have

But for white people, being poor didn’t define them in the way our blackness defined us. Poverty itself could be temporary and if by chance or effort they broke its chains, there’d be a white world waiting. But.

Racism isn’t killing the Australian dream. The Australian dream was founded on racism.

To criminologists these are statistics, to us they are mothers, fathers, uncles, aunties, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters. These numbers have names and faces.

Adam was told to toughen up. Get over it. We hear this a lot. History is in the past, bad things happened but it is time to move on. But history is not past for us. Adam.

We fight still to be recognised in the Australian Constitution; that same constitution that has allowed laws to take away children; invade our homes and violate our privacy. In.